Designing
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Two pages from The Textile Mercury (1 November 1890) in its designing column. They open with a commentary on how the McKinley Tariff affects textile designers and manufacturers and the idea of trade co-operation. The main technical content is a new fancy diagonal weave for cotton, linen and silk dress goods, with loom particulars (8 shafts, 24-end draft, 72 ends per inch, 24's warp, 12's weft, 72 picks) and colouring suggestions, plus a section on figured mantle or dress cloths with colour-blending advice and Design 193.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1890
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
- Weaving drafts
- on 2 pages: 1, 2
- Archive notes
- Digital photography.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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